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Bitcoin difficulty adjustment at block 499,968

December 18, 2017. Difficulty rose by +17.74% to 1.87T from 1.59T.

Change+17.74%
New difficulty1.87T
Period length11.9 days
Network hashrate then (7-day)13.8 EH/s
Bitcoin price then$18,286
Hashprice then$2,340/PH/day

The 2,016 blocks before it took 11.9 days instead of 14, so the network had more hashrate than the difficulty assumed, and difficulty rose by 17.74%: one of the largest adjustments on record. For every machine on the network that is a pay cut of the same size until the next retarget.

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